Thursday, November 29, 2007

Must Read: Rescuing Democracy

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a new book out and some fascinating ideas on how progressives can craft one silver bullet to fix the United States. The cure? Fix our democracy. Reich also has some interesting ideas on how our consumer-driven culture is driving us a bit nuts inthis AlterNet interview.

So all we have to do to cure all the ills of the country is "Fix our democracy". Wow, I had not realized it would be that simple. And here I thought the solution was something like, "Don't be an idiot."